Trial reportPsychopharmacology2007
Prospective memory impairment in "ecstasy" (MDMA) users.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The effects of licit and illicit recreational drugs on prospective memory: a meta-analytic review.Psychopharmacology · 2019Pooled it
- Prospective memory in Parkinson disease during a virtual week: effects of both prospective and retrospective demands.Neuropsychology · 2013Trial
- Global impairment of prospective memory following acute alcohol.Psychopharmacology · 2009Trial
- Biomarkers of cognitive and memory decline in psychotropic drug users.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2025Review
- Subjective long-term emotional and social effects of recreational MDMA use: the role of setting and intentions.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Recreational drug use and prospective memory.Psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Prospective memory impairment in neurological disorders: implications and management.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2021Review
- Are subjective sleepiness and sleep quality related to prospective memory?Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2020Article
- Initial feasibility and validity of a prospective memory training program in a substance use treatment population.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2016Article
- Regularity effect in prospective memory during aging.Socioaffective neuroscience & psychology · 2016Article
- Prospective memory impairment in long-term opiate users.Psychopharmacology · 2014Article
- Prospective memory and chronic heart failure.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2013Article
- A role for cognitive rehabilitation in increasing the effectiveness of treatment for alcohol use disorders.Neuropsychology review · 2013Review
- Prospective memory deficits in Ecstasy users: effects of longer ongoing task delay interval.Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology · 2011Article
- Prospective memory in substance abusers at treatment entry: associations with education, neuropsychological functioning, and everyday memory lapses.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2011Article
- Prospective memory functioning among ecstasy/polydrug users: evidence from the Cambridge Prospective Memory Test (CAMPROMPT).Psychopharmacology · 2011Article
- Procedural and declarative memory task performance, and the memory consolidation function of sleep, in recent and abstinent ecstasy/MDMA users.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2011Article
- In-utero exposure to the popular 'recreational' drugs MDMA (Ecstasy) and Methamphetamine (Ice, crystal): preliminary findings.Clinics in developmental medicine · 2011Article
- The age prospective memory paradox: young adults may not give their best outside of the lab.Developmental psychology · 2010Article
- During pregnancy, recreational drug-using women stop taking ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine) and reduce alcohol consumption, but continue to smoke tobacco and cannabis: initial findings from the Development and Infancy Study.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2010Article
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Abstract
rationaleConsiderable research indicates that "ecstasy" users perceive their memory for future intentions (prospective memory) to be impaired. However, only one empirical study to date has directly tested how this capacity is affected by ecstasy use, and this study provided relatively limited information regarding the extent, scope, or implications of problems experienced.
objectivesThe present study assessed prospective performance on a laboratory measure of prospective memory that closely represents the types of prospective memory tasks that actually occur in everyday life and provides an opportunity to investigate the different sorts of prospective memory failures that occur ("Virtual Week").
methodEcstasy user group (27 current users and 34 nonusers) was between participants, and prospective memory task (regular, irregular, time-check) was within participants. A measure sensitive to specific aspects of psychopathology was also administered.
resultsEcstasy users were significantly impaired on Virtual Week, and these deficits were of a comparable magnitude irrespective of the specific prospective memory task demands. The pattern of results was unchanged after controlling for marijuana use, level of psychopathology, and sleep quality. Further, prospective memory was shown to be significantly impaired for both relatively infrequent and relatively frequent ecstasy users, although for the latter group the magnitude of this deficit was greater.
conclusionsProspective memory performance is sensitive to regular and even moderate ecstasy use. Importantly, ecstasy users experience generalized difficulties with prospective memory, suggesting that these deficits are likely to have important implications for day-to-day functioning.
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